The Suggestion: Johnny Depp as The Riddler 2.0

The Style Blog casting department could be accused of leaning toward the easy pick. Sam Worthington as Bond. Jon Hamm as Superman. What's next, you ask — Gary Busey in The Hangover 2? Well, yeah, but anyway: Christopher Nolan just announced that his third Batman film would be titled The Dark Knight Rises, which it has, in spectacularly dark fashion — and we mean fashion — as the Batman franchise and all its villains, from Cillian Murphy's tie-toting Scarecrow to the late Heath Ledger's vested, < target="_blank">velvet-loving Joker.

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Too bad, then, that Nolan also said he'd be turning his back on that most stylistically challenging of Batman bad guys, the Riddler. Maybe it's because Batman Forever — the third and most putrid in the last reincarnation of the franchise — made the character into a jump-suited, squealing caricature at the behest of Jim Carrey (above) and the legacy of Danny DeVito's ascot-tastic Penguin. Or maybe Nolan's arc just isn't ready for the classic characters to bust out all at once. (That was the problem with Batman Forever, after all, though after seeing Inception and Memento, one would have to think the Nolan brothers would jump at a riddle-ridden plot).

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But here's hoping the Riddler returns for the fourth installment, and classically so. Not turtleneck-TV classic, or even green-tie-on-green-jacket classic, just... dapper. And who better to bring an iconic, put-on lunacy and wear a dark-green suit than Johnny Depp? If you've been distracted from Angelina Jolie by his wardrobe in those trailers for The Tourist (above), well, you're crazy. But he can wear anything, and you get the point: he's an obvious choice, but sometime obvious is good. Especially with all the riddles.